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title: "Strategies"
slug: "strategies"
status: "update"
updated: 2026-08-18T18:44:32Z
published: 2026-08-18T18:51:02Z
canonical: "support.eduphoria.net/strategies"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Strategies

A strategy is a custom tag that district users and curriculum owners can create for teachers and other curriculum-based users to apply to lessons and preps. For example, a teacher might tag a lesson with a strategy to indicate that they applied certain accommodations, instructional strategies, or technology.

Beacon organizes strategies into color-coded categories to better assist users in finding and applying certain types of strategies or to quickly identify lessons by the strategies with which they are tagged. For example, a “Technology” category might include strategies such as “online course,” “app game,” or “electronic whiteboard.”

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** Only users with the **Create District Curriculum Courses** right can manage strategies.

![Overview of instructional strategies with options to add or edit categories and strategies.](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/strategies(1).png)

| # | Field | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | New Category () | Opens a window where you can enter a title and select a color to apply to a new category. |
| 2 | Edit Category () | Opens a window where you can edit the title and color of an existing category. You can also delete the category from this window if necessary. |
| 3 | Edit Strategy () | Opens a window where you can edit and save the title and description of an existing strategy. You can also delete the strategy from this window if necessary. |
| 4 | Activate () / Deactivate () Strategy | Activates or deactivates the strategy. - When the toggle is blue, the strategy is active. Teachers can add the strategy to their lessons and preps. - When the toggle is gray, the strategy is inactive and cannot be used. |
| 5 | Expand () / Collapse () Strategy | Shows or hides the strategy’s description. Expanding and collapsing strategies help you learn about the purpose of each strategy and how teachers can apply them to their lessons and preps. |
| 6 | New Strategy () | Opens a window where you can enter a title and description to create a new strategy. The description can include: - Various text styles, such as headers and body paragraphs; - Bolded, italicized, or underlined text; - Added links; or - Uploaded files, such as images and PDFs. |

Strategies are custom tags that district users and curriculum owners can create to help users locate and identify components based on the instructional strategies employed in the lesson, unit, etc.